**Hello everyone! We'll
be giving some priority to all the first applicants who've got in touch
with us. We are really excited about some of your ideas. If you see this
notice, feel free to still apply, we will slowly but surely get back to
you for city missions in 2011. THANKS! Editors/ 1 October 2010**From cities and the crisis to the Balkans.

After five
successful years reporting monthly from Europe in the framework of our
'on the ground' all-expenses paid editorial project, cafebabel.com
is happy to announce we will continue to send five journalists -
outside the EU. For once! This includes one of the Paris-based
magazine's six editors and a photojournalist from the cafebabel.com citizen media network.
There's so much high-level jabber of 'prospects', 'politics' and 'EU
membership' - Turkish accession to the EU?! Kosovo's independence from
Serbia?! Visa-free travel for Albania and Bosnia?! Is Macedonia the only
Balkan state who hasn't applied for the EU!? Why is it at loggerheads
with Greece over a name...?! It feels like since Romania and Bulgaria
joined the EU in 2007, we've gone no further in trying to discover what
lies beyond this complex Balkan hyperbole.
What does actually mean for young Europeans? From , we're tearing down the mountains to visit from the Balkans and Turkey to enlarge our minds - and not just the European Union.

the Balkan and Turkey regionOctober 2010eight capitals

WITH YOU!

Live from and to and ,
join us to demystify south-eastern Europe via a series of written or
photographed features from a young, pan-European, citizen journalist
perspective. Talk to the people; uncover the issues which might just
show us that maybe EU citizens should be trying to join the Balkans, not
vice versa.

TiranaBelgradeIstanbulPodgorica

The mission starts with a bang at our annual summer university in
October. This year Turkey is the setting for potential participants
having an opportunity to meet one another, share ideas. The mission will
run with a monthly online publication of special editions of your
investigations and photo reports. The mission ends with a bang in a
photo exhibition in May 2011, featuring you as guests, and the best of
the year's reports. Before we talk cocktails in Paris in September 2011
though, we need to know who's in, and what coverage you can help us to
bring to the Balkans/ Turkey - .

apply today

: Nabeelah Shabbir/ editors@cafebabel.com

Send us your CV, links to other reports you have done and one paragraph on how you're going to Balkan-ise/ Turk-ify cafebabel.com

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